memory monday: our trip

Sep 24

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, caleb isaiah, family, memories, memory monday, ramblings

Luckily, the weather on the coast is impossible to predict. When we left, it was supposed to rain through Sunday! It rained most of our drive. But after we arrived, the rain passed and it was sunny and hot the rest of the weekend! We hauled all of these tools with us so that Scott could move the air vent for the couple who owned the house where we stayed. When he went to talk with the wife about it, she basically said, you aren’t cutting another hole in my hardwoods!!! Who can blame her, but that meant we brought a huge sawzall (to cut the hole with), a drill, flashlight, box of flex, and other miscellaneous crap…for nothing. Scott went to Lowe’s and bought a few cans of expanding foam to insulate the current vent and called it a day.

We went to the aquarium while we were there. That was pretty neat. They had some HUGE stingrays. I love watching them swim, just gliding through the water so gracefully. Caleb seemed to think it was pretty cool, but I think overall, he was a little over stimulated the entire weekend. Just being out of his element, in the car a lot, not sleeping that well, etc. We all fell into bed last night and knocked out until 8am. We are actually hoping to go to the mountains next month…not so sure that will work out…but I would love to see the colors changing. Good news…our grass is returning to our front yard! Scott rendered it a mud hole with his RC truck, but we must have gotten some rain while we were gone, because it has started to fill back in.

I spent a completely unnecessary amount of time worrying about where Caleb would sleep. We brought along an air mattress, so that he could sleep in our room since we’d be in strange place. To our surprise, one bedroom had a full bed and a twin bed right up against each other. Great! Did I mention a slab of rock would have slept better? So the second night, I sent Scott outside to blow up the air mattress using a air compressor that plugs into your cigarette lighter. I know, we’re so prepared. FORTY minutes later (20 minutes after Caleb passed out in my arms), he returned with the mattress. I put it in the second bedroom thinking surely this bed would sleep better than the other one. I woke up around 5am to check on Boog. Not only was he way off to one side using a balled up blanket as a pillow, he was also sleeping on the hardwood floor! Obviously the air mattress that took 40 minutes to blow up had a hole in it. I felt so bad! I put Caleb in the bed with Scott and I slept on the loveseat the rest of the morning. By the way, the second bed was no better. Both rocks. So in that aspect, I’m glad to be home to my pillowtop. Overall, it was quite nice to get away.